Author Archives: Syndicated Content
What's in the $2.3 trillion U.S. coronavirus rescue package
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed the largest federal stimulus package in history into law on March 27 to help cope with the economic downturn inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic and sh...
Apr 01, 2020
Insurers fret as company bosses face coronavirus legal claims
By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers are increasingly worried about shareholders, employees or customers bringing coronavirus-related claims against company executives a...
Apr 01, 2020
European labs to receive control material to spot false negative coronavirus tests
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Laboratories across Europe can now access control material to enable them to avoid mistakenly telling people they are free of the coronavirus when in fact they are infected, the E...
Apr 01, 2020
Swiss distillery shifts from schnapps to sanitizer
By Cecile Mantovani MARTIGNY, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss distillery has converted its production of pear schnapps to make disinfectant hand gel for use against the coronavirus. Morand Distillery,...
Apr 01, 2020
Learning on the job: French student doctor thrown into coronavirus front line
By Clotaire Achi CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE, France (Reuters) - Medical student Elodie Vieira uses her stethoscope to check the breathing of a patient, who coughs strongly as she gets closer. "Very sorry," s...
Apr 01, 2020
EU carbon market emissions excluding aviation fell 8.7% in 2019
LONDON (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions regulated under Europe's carbon market fell by 8.7% last year, preliminary like-for-like data shown in the European Union Transaction Log database published...
Apr 01, 2020
Second inmate at Louisiana's Oakdale prison has died of COVID-19, official says
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second inmate at the federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana has died from COVID-19, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday. Th...
Apr 01, 2020
Exclusive: Germany, credit insurers agree plan to keep trade flowing - sources
MUNICH/BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government and the country's credit insurance industry have agreed to help to maintain insurance cover for trade despite economic hardship related to the coronavir...
Apr 01, 2020
Israel links coronavirus aid for Gaza to recovering soldiers
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Wednesday linked any assistance it might offer for the Gaza Strip's efforts against coronavirus to progress in its attempt to recover two Israeli soldiers lost during t...
Apr 01, 2020
Coronavirus batters steel sector, Europe hardest hit
By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is battering the global steel sector as huge swathes of industry that use steel shut down, with Europe hardest hit since steel demand and com...
Apr 01, 2020
